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New blog post up, on being a writer with debilitating anxiety, and how it's affected my creative process. Read it at leilaammartin.com/shorts #anxiety #AmWriting #WritingLife #WritingProcess #MentalHealth #Creativity

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New #TuesdayShort, in which a young woman is selected to play a part and finds out what happens when myths have their roots in reality. #AmWriting #ShortStory #WritingCommunity

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New #TuesdayShort, in which a boy opens a magic door to the world he's always dreamed of. #ShortStory #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #FreeStory

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Exploring why the right title & cover art make SUCH a difference. #AmPublishing #IndieAuthor #NoAI

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New #TuesdayShort, in which a prince who always gets what he wants eventually gets more than he bargained for, and faces the justice of a pack of angry women. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #ShortStory

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New #TuesdayShort, in which a student chases the legend of a saint to find the darkness at the heart of her school...or does it find her?

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I used to think I hated unreliable narrators, until I realized what I need from them.

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New #TuesdayShort, in which an old ghost meets a new ghost and falls in love all over again. Also there's a talking skull with a questionable sense of humor. #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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New #TuesdayShort, in which a young woman discovers the truth far too late. Content warnings before the post. #AmWriting #ShortStory #WritingCommunity

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i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.

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Couldn't hurt

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oh god bugs bunny in the ampk city watch, can you imagine 🤣

I've been thinking of the "Can Granny Weatherwax beat Bugs Bunny" question and this is my full take for Discworld characters:

Vimes - Cares too much, too easy to piss off. Has the innate chase instinct that makes characters run into walls with realistic tunnels painted on them. Might get to arrest Bugs Bunny but the beast will just slip out of the handcuffs to help him lock them, then walk out of the jail cell to have a union mandated coffee break.

Ridcully - Classic hunting season scenario, but has enough charisma to probably still get a few good shots off before the inevitable.

Rest of the wizards - No survivors, only Bugs.

Carrot - The intense near-magical narrative aura of well meaning innocence should make him immune, Bugs will likely be forced to be the villain of the episode.

Lord Vetinari - Flattened by a comically large anvil in the first few minutes of the episode, unclear if it was all a part of his long term strategy or not.

Moist - Has the 'lovable trickster getting away with it' energy, but nowhere near Bugs level. Already fell for the "old lady who swallowed a fly" scenario with the stamp slugs once, won't fare any better here.

Death - Definitely one of those "character is trying to avoid death" episodes, would go back and forth. Might actually get to end Bugs but his spirit will reappear in Death's domain and ruin his garden.

Nanny Ogg - The ultimate in anti-Bugs technology, a gleefully annoying old lady who doesn't give a fuck and definitely won't be the first to instigate the plot bearing conflict. This is a full sweep, he's the episode antagonist.

Granny Weatherwax - Too win-motivated to not lose. Would have to break the story to have any chance. Might do it.

Magrat - Will have sappy ideas about helping the poor animal which honestly has the 50:50 chance of either getting slapsticked or Bugs ending in a ye olde stroller&pacifier gag.

Colon&Nobby - Designed in a lab to be totaled by Bugs Bunny.

Tiffany Aching - A child that also has a large pan that is the perfect thing to hit someone over the head with and make a BOIOIOINGGG sound, so great odds.

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“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”

-Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

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New #TuesdayShort, in which a king listens to the wrong brain until it's too late. Whoops. #AmWriting #ShortStory #WritingCommunity

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New #TuesdayShort, in which Princess Evelyn learns the dark, dangerous truth behind the wolves that guard her father's kingdom. #AmWriting #ShortStories #WritingCommunity

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Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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